Victrola

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victrola

(vɪkˈtrəʊlə)

(Electronics) a gramophone

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Victrola

Originally, a phonograph from the Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, NJ, but it eventually became more of a generic term for any brand of phonograph. The turntables of phonographs of that era were usually powered by wind-up springs. Also, there was no electronic amplification. The grooves of the record caused the phonograph needle to vibrate and it, in turn, caused a metal diaphragm to which it was attached, to vibrate also. The sound from the vibrating metal disk was acoustically coupled to a large megaphone-like horn mounted in the phonograph cabinet.

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Victrola - a brand of gramophone

acoustic gramophone, gramophone - an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically

trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product

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виктрола

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What's more, unlike Model A's and Victrolas, this one never went out of style.

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He was able as a result to buy a bakery which proved profitable enough for him to move with his family, in less that five years, from humble quarters on Forest Street to a commodious home high up a hill on Fairmount Street where napkins were as available as telephones, victrolas and toilet paper.

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"These are wonderful old songs that we enjoyed listening to on crank-up Victrolas and on tube radios many decades ago," Grenman says.

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It may be found woven inextricably into the fabric of his poems: in his music teachers and Victrolas, in his shaded lawns, his porches and weedy lots.

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Both perform a rarely heard Delta boogie blues style, and it's Belfour, discovered only within the last two years, who is a traditional acoustic musician -- a throwback to the days of 78s and Victrolas. Burnside, on the other hand, has emerged as one of the blues' singular modernists, with a style that rolls around in the muck of Mississippi and churns out gloriously up-to-date rocking blues.

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